Grain-binder attachment.



I. R.. TIBBLES & T. .S,.'K|LG|ORE. GRAIN BINDER ATTACHMENT.'APPLICATION-FILED Aue.2s. nels.

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ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JUDSON R. TIBBLES, OEMACEDONIA, AND THAD S. KILGORE, 0F SILVER CITY,IWA.

' GRAIN-BINDERI ATTACHMENT.

Application filed August 28, 1915. `Serial No. 47,856.

To all whom t may concern.' Be it knownthatwe, JUDsoN and THA'D S.KILGORE, citizens of the United States, and residents of Macedonia andSilver City,- and Mills, respectively, and State of Iowa, have inventeda certain new and useful Grain-Binder Attachment, of which the followingis a specification.

The object of our invention is to prov'de a binder attachment having avsource of power for operating the working mech- I anism of any ordinarybinder.

' of the binder and A further object is to provide such a binderattachment and a source of power suitably mounted thereon, withconvenient mechanism for transmitting power from the source of power ofthe operative mechanism to locate such transmit? ting mechanism ascenter of gravity of the binder and underneath the parts of the binderat the upper end of the elevator.

Still a further object is to vprovide in a binder `having a reel andsickle, an attachment by which the reelis operated from the tractionwheel o f the binder, whereby the speed of the reel will-be governedaccording` to the speed of the binders advance, which binder is alsoprovided with a suitable sourceV of power for operating the othermechanism lof the machine, whereby the heavy draft is taken from theanimals which pull the binder.

A further object is to provide a device of the kind mentioned, in theform of an attachment which maybe readily and easily installed onbinders of ordinary construction, without substantially changing theproper balance thereof, and also which may be so installed with almostno change in the arrangement of the parts of the binder.

Our invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combinationof the various parts of the device, whereby the objects contemplated areattained as hereinafter more fully set forth and pointed out in' ourclaims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

`Figure 1 shows a rear elevation of a binder partly in section,embodying our invention, taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 shows a vertical sectional foreand` aft view of the binder takenjust to the right of the frame upon which the engine is Specification ofLetters Patent.

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' partsr of the mechanism near as possible to thev "1Sb operated from asprocket 18c Patented-goti 10. 1916.

nism connected therewith, ture of ness.

One ofthe importa t invention arises fromrl the upper strucadvantages ofour i maybe mounted on an ordinary blnder in theway of an 'attach-` mentwith almost no change in the arrangement of the binder parts.l 'We have,therefore, not shown the binder parts in detail for Y1n themselvesalone, the parts vof an ordinary binder are well known and form no partof our invention.

In`the accompanying drawings, we have used'v the reference numeral 10 toindicate the binder being removed for clear-v he fact that certain.

generally the frame of an ordinary binder having the large tractionWheel 12., near one end of the binder. At the other end of the binder isthe small supporting Wheel 134 The binder is provided erating pitman 14.Thebinder also has the ordinary reel 15 on the shaft 16, operated bysuitable gearing devices from a short shaft 18, detachably mountedon theframe 10. Insteadof connecting thesprocket 19 on the shaft 11 with theshaft 23 in the usual way, we connect it with the sprocket 20 on theshaft 18, by means ofa chain 21. Above axle 11, on which is fixed thewith the ordinary sickle ba'r"op.

thesh'aft 18 is a shaft 18a having a sprocket on the shaft 18 by a chain18d.g The shaft 198a tively connected with the reel shaft 16 by sultablegearing devices 17. It will be understood that on binders lof differentmakes, the shaft 18 may be connected with the reel in various suitableways. It will thus be seen that one feature of our invention -lies inthearrangement of the parts, whereby the major part of the binder operatingmechanism is run from a suitable source of power mounted on the binders,while the reel 15 is operated from the traction wheel '12.

It is well known that it is desirable to is operaoperate the reel fromthe traction wheel for the' reason that it is desirable that the reelshould feeder bend the upper parts of the straw and grain rearwardlyover the sickle bar at a certain relative speed with relation to theforward travel o ,f the machine. This advantage is retained in ourdevice vby operating the reel from the traction wheel. At lthe sainetime it is well known that the It maybe mentioned that all binders nowIin use-are very lcarefully balanced so as to locate the` load as nearlyas possible over -the line between the centers of the wheels 12 and 13.vIt is therefore our purpose to so mount the engine 22 and gearingmechanism for connecting the same t6 the shaft 23 in such a way as tolocate them as near as possible adjacent to the center of gravity of themachine. In order to accomplish this` purpose,` we have mounted theengine 22 upon arms 24, secured tothe frame 10fnear 25 the axle 11 andextending rearwardly and upwardly in substantially parallel position.Mounted in suitable bearings on the arms 2li/'just below and forwardlyof the engine 4.22 is. a shaft 25. On the shaft 25 is a fm, sprocketgear 26 in line with a sprocket gear 27 on the engine shaft 28. Thesprocket 26 is run from the sprocket 27 by means of a. chain 29. On thearms 21 forwardly of the shaft 25 is a transverse shaft 30, on which isa sprocket in line with a sprocket gear 32 on tie shaft 25. A chain 33travels on the sprockets 32 and 31 for transmitting rotary motion fromthe shaft 25 to the shaft 30. On the shaft 30 is asleeve 34 on which isa sprocket 35.

Formed on the sleeve 34 is `a clutch member 3G.

Slidably but non-rotatably mounted in any suitable way on the sha`ft 30is a sleeve 37on which is a' clutch member 38 adapted. in one positionto coactinglyengage the clutch member 36 for transmitting rotation fromthe shaft 30 to the sleeve 34 and sprocket The sleeve 37 is operativelyconnected with a lever 39 pivoted at one end to the frame of themachine, and at the other end to a link 40. The link 4() is operated bymeans of a lever 41. The sprocket gear 35 is in line with a sprocketgear 42 on the shaft 23 and transmits power thereto by means of a chain44.

It is well known that ordinary bindersl have over the wheel 12 framework or supporting the Aupper ,end of the e evating mechanism, knottingor tying mechanism and a suitable bundle receptacle.

It is our purpose to so arrange the arms 24; that the shaft30 may belocated beneath the upper portion of the machine, just de- '65 scribed,and as near as possible to the shaft It is, therefore, our purear 31,

11, varying as little 'asl possible from the balance which is maintainedby thel ordinary `mon use is so constructed and arranged that the weightis carefully balanced over the main axle. The operative mechanism isalso arranged so that said mechanism may be operated from the largetractionwheel 12 by means of power transmitted from said large tractionwheel to the shaft 23. Our device 4is made as an'attachment capable ofbeing mounted on the ordinarynbinder now in use, of diiferentmakes,kinds and sizes with a minimum of interference with the ordinaryoperative mechanism, with a minimum disturbance on the balancel of thebinder, which attachment can be veasily and quicklyl mounted on theordinary binder frame.`

The features of 'construction of ourdevice, whereby we accomplish thethings just mentioned lie in the construction and arl rangement of theparts such as the arrangement of the engine on the bracket arms in sucha way that its shaft is parallel with the shaft 23. It will readily beseen that? such an arrangement of the engine enables us to locate theengine closer to the main axle 11 than is the case where thegengine islocated Vwith its shaft arranged fore-and-aft in the machine.

lVe accomplish the purpose of a minimum disturbance of the balance ofthe binder by using a 'comparatively small sized high speed engine witha reduced speed gearing, including a suitable clutch all mounted on thebracket arms, so that the attachment can be operatively connected withthe shaft 23 for operating said shaft at substantially the same speed atwhich it would be operated from the large drive wheel in binders ofordinary construction. By the use of the reduced speed gearing, we areable to use a high speed engine but low weight engine sufficient tooperate the mechanism of the binder andyet so light that it does notinterfere greatly with the balance-of the machine. IfY a low speedengine were used, it would be necessary to use' a high power engine, andtherefore a comparatively heavy one to accomplish lthe purpose of.running the binder mechanism under all the various surface conditions.By using the light, but high' speed gearing, the power is applied atsubstantially the same point as it would ordinarily be applied from thetraction wheel, so that there is no disturbance ofthe ordinary bindermechanism.

It will be understood that the sickle operating mechanism, the platformand endless carrier thereon, the operating mechanism, and cutting andbinding mechanism may be the. same as that used in ordinary binders nowon the market.

We understand' that some changes may be made in the construction andarrangement of the parts of our improved attachment without. departingfrom its essentialv shafts 25 and 30 may be securedito the frame of' anybinder, by the means of supporting brackets 50, which may be variedsomewhat insize and adjustment, the source of power and gearingmechanism herein shown may be mounted on any b1nder, and 1t 1's veryeasy to arrange the sprockets ofthe attachmentand to placeas many linksin the various chains as is. necessary to accomplish,

the purpose, and secure proper, adjustment.

`Th'e sprockets 19 and-20.areA readily and easily mounted o n'ther-ordinary shafts with very` slight 'modiication'of the other parts.

"lV' 'claim' as" our invention. A

1. The combination of a binder havingv a reel andharing other mechanismadapted to coact with thereel in the cutting aiid`bindring of grain, atraction wheel, a shaft mountf ed on the frame of the binder, meansffimparting rotation to said shafts from sald traction Wheel, a secondshaft mounted on the frame of the binder above said first shaft,sprocket gearson said shafts, a chain on said sprocket gears, and meansfor operatively connecting said ,second shaft with said reel, said meanscomprising a third shaft, operatively connected with the reel andcoacting gearing devices on the second and third shafts.

2. In a device` of theclass described, the,

combination of a frame having a grain har- I vesting mechanismthereon-with an attachment comprising a bracket, means for detachablymounting said bracket on saidf frame, an engine on said bracket, a pairof transverse parallel shafts mounted on said bracket, means fortransmitting power from the engine to one of said shafts, means fortransmitting vpower from theiirst to the second shaft, said means beingso arranged as to rotate .the second of said shafts more slowly than theengine shaft is rotated, means for'transmitting power from the second ofsaid shafts to theharvesting mechanism on said frame, and a clutchdevice for operatively connecting and disconnecting said last namedmeans with said second shaft.

Macedonia, Iowa.

JUDSON R. TIBBLES.l

THAD S. KILGURE.

Witnesses:

. OSCAR HUG, v' WILLOUGHBY DYE.

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